Lead UI Engineer

3 Days Old

This position follows our hybrid-friendly schedule, so you get the best of both worlds - flexibility and collaboration. In office days will be 2-3 per week averaging 10-12 days per month in our St Petersburg, FL Corporate Office.
Responsibilities:
Lead the design and implementation of user interfaces that are intuitive, scalable, and aligned with business and user needs.
Translate functional and visual requirements into modular, maintainable UI components in coordination with product, design, and backend teams.
Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to understand user workflows and ensure front-end features reflect desired outcomes.
Partner with UX/design teams to bring wireframes and prototypes to life, ensuring accessibility, responsiveness, and performance across devices.
Contributes to technical planning, including estimation, sequencing, and task breakdown for front-end deliverables.
Ensure code quality through best practices in architecture, testing, and documentation, and provide guidance to junior engineers.
Participate in solution discussions, helping to align UI strategy with application architecture and enterprise standards.
Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, bridging the gap between design intent and technical implementation.
Identify and resolve UI/UX issues during development and testing, ensuring seamless user experience in production.
Support collaboration across disciplines including QA, DevOps, and security, ensuring front-end deliverables meet cross-functional expectations.
Apply consistent judgment in balancing usability, technical constraints, and long-term maintainability.
Stay current on emerging trends in front-end engineering and contributes to evolving UI/UX best practices within the team.
Lead front-end efforts for mid-sized projects or modules within larger initiatives.
Support an inclusive and collaborative engineering culture, mentoring others and sharing knowledge regularly.
May occasionally assist in production support and troubleshooting for user-facing issues.
Skills:
7+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale software applications, with at least 3+ years focused on front-end development using JavaScript frameworks (React preferred, Angular or similar acceptable).
Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
Hands-on experience with component-driven architecture and reusable UI patterns.
Deep expertise in integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs and managing authentication flows (OAuth2, JWT).
Familiarity with front-end tooling and workflows including Webpack, Babel, NPM/Yarn.
Experience with modern testing frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress.
Proficient in state management libraries like Redux, Context API, or NGXS/NGRX (for Angular).
Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues using Chrome DevTools, Postman, Splunk, and browser-based monitoring tools.
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, and practical experience collaborating with backend and DevOps teams to streamline releases.
Hands-on with version control and ITSM tools such as Azure DevOps, TFS, or ServiceNow.
Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and responsive design principles.
Exposure to enterprise front-end architectures, micro-frontend patterns, and vendor-based UI platforms.
Optional experience or working knowledge of Java or backend systems.
Advanced knowledge of requirements gathering, issue tracking, change management.
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Location:
St Petersburg, FL, United States
Category:
Computer And Mathematical Occupations

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